476 Floricultural and Botanical Notices, 



Falconer. It is certainly a mere variety of Carpesium cernuum, 

 and hardly so much ; nor does there appear any good character 

 to distinguish from our European plant the C. nepalense of 

 Lessing." {B. M. R., Sept., No. 123.) 



+ PodSlepis contorta Lindl. "A native of Van Diemen's 

 Land, whence seeds of it were sent to the Horticultural Society 

 by Mr. J. Bunce. It is a pretty perennial, with dark green 

 fleshy leaves, a flower-stem from 6 in. to 9 in. high, and solitary 

 golden flower-heads." The flowers are about the size and form 

 of those of the sweet sultan; but all the florets of the ray have 

 *'a distinct twist to the left," which gives the flower-head the 

 appearance of a Catherine wheel. [B. M. JR., Sept., No, 120.) 



Ijobellacese. 



609. LOBE^L/^ 



«Bridg6sM Hook. Mr. Bridges's £ t_| or 4 jn Pk Cliile 1836 S p.l Bot/mag. 3671. 



An extremely handsome species of L,oh^\ia, which was dis- 

 covered by Mr. Bridges, near El Castello de Amorgos, Valdivia, 

 in the south of Chile. (See Hook et Am. Contr. S. Am. Bot. in 

 Bot. Journ., p. 278.) The plant was raised from seeds at Kew, 

 and thence sent to the Botanic Garden, Glasgow, where it flow- 

 ered in the green-house in July, 1837. It grows 3 or 4 feet high, 

 and is somewhat suffruticose below. The flowers are large, 

 showy, and of a beautiful pink ; and the leaves are 5 or 6 inches 

 long, lanceolate, much acuminated, and closely and acutely 

 serrated. {Bot. Mag., Aug.) 



*fenestraUs Kunth window Q) pr 3 jn.s P Mexico com.s. Bot. reg. n. s. t. 47. 

 Synonyme : Rapiintiuin fenestrate Presl. 



" A half-hardy biennial, growing from 2 ft. to 3 ft. high, and 

 flowering freely from July to September. Found by Humboldt 

 and Bonpland in the temperate parts of Mexico, near the city 

 itself, on Chapoltepec and Pazcuaro, at the height of 6600 ft. 

 Its seeds have recently been obtained by G. F. Dickson, Esq., 

 from the same country, and have been presented by that gen- 

 tleman to the Horticultural Society of London." {Bot. Beg., 

 Aug.) ^ 



'EiricdcecB. 



"Ericece. In Paxton's Magazijie of Botany for August (a 

 work in which we are happy to see the plates have recently 

 been very much improved in execution), it is strongly recom- 

 mended to keep Cape heaths in a house by themselves, and to 

 shade them from the scorching rays of the summer's sun with 

 thin canvass, so contrived as to be rolled on and off the house at 

 pleasure. One of the best modes that we know of doing this 

 is that which was adopted by Mr. Forrest at Syon, and which 

 will be found described in the Gardener^s Magazine, vol. v. 

 p. 510. Cultivators of Cape heaths frequently find some plants 

 killed during a hot summer's day, though the house in which 



